Holly Ordway is the Cardinal Francis George Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word on Fire Institute, and Visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts and is a subject editor for the Journal of Inklings Studies. She is the author of the award-winning Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages , and her book Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography was released in 2023, in time for the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death.
She has also contributed chapters on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to volumes such as Tolkien Among the Theologians, Life on the Silent Planet: Essays in Christian Living from C.S. Lewis’s Ransom. Trilogy, C.S. Lewis in Poets’ Corner, The Inklings and King Arthur, and C.S. Lewis’s List.
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